Rhode Island is considering a bill that would allow the abortion of post-viable babies for reasons extending beyond the preservation of the mother’s life.

The state’s Reproductive Health Care Act, H5127, bars the state and any of its agencies or political subdivisions from interfering with a woman’s decision to abort a pre-viable child or post-viable child “when necessary to preserve the health or life of that individual.”

The bill directs the attending physician to determine whether a baby is viable or not.

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The measure was introduced Jan. 16 and presented on the House Committee floor Tuesday. The committee recommended the measured be held for further study.

“Let’s make this the year we codify women’s access to reproductive health care here in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo said in her Jan. 12 State of the State address, promising to support the bill.

Virginia’s HB 2491 would repeal the state’s current restrictions on late-term abortions. The bill would allow a doctor to perform an abortion when a woman is dilating, meaning she is about to give birth.

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The proposal eliminates the state’s requirement that second and third-trimester abortions be performed only to preserve the health or life of the woman.

The state’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates tabled the measure Tuesday.

New York passed the Reproductive Health Act Jan. 22 expanding abortion access and codifying a woman’s right to abort under state law. The law removes abortion from the state’s criminal code and allows women to have abortions after 24 weeks in cases where “there is an absence of fetal viability, or at any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health,” according to the legislation.

Gov. Raimondo did not reply to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Rhode Island senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed also did not immediately respond to TheDCNF’s request for comment.

Maryland, Maine and New Mexico are also considering similar bills expanding abortion access, according to The Associated Press.

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